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Re: Switzerland records
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 05 April 23 06:24 BST (UK) »
Just an important note: familysearch has a lot of wrong transcriptions of the handwritten Kirchenbücher. The reason is the unknown names of people and places if somebody is doing the transcription who is English speaking! The best is to verify the information you got from familysearch with the primary source! The other problem is that there was a period the entries in the Kirchenbücher for women surnames got a special ending e.g. Hauserin, Müllerin, Lehmännin…
Acheson, Coffey, Casey, Ahearn, Kennedy, Hughes, Hearn, Gamble, Norwood, Carroll, Gray, Powell, Power, Hennebry, Rainsberry, Lyndop, Lester, Caesar.
Wunderli, Wanner, Frei, Koneth, Mäder, Häuptli, Tobler, Pletscher, Stamm, Schiess, Signer, Meyer, Burkhard, Knupp, Stünzi, Usteri, Zeller, Heusi